Improvement in mode of measuring and sacking grain



-D. M. GoolIRAN. A

, SAGKING, AND STAGKING BEVICE.

Patented Sept. 3, 18615.`

l AGRAIN MBASURING No. 33,186.

In Palafox' if 6 yUNITED un cocinmx, or nu'nnoxn, INDIANA. s

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent l\'o.l 33,1186, dated September 55, lSI.

To LZZ who/'1L it "11mg Concern.'

Be it known that I, I). M. (DCHRAN, ol' Richmond, in the county of \Vaync and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Measuring Aand Sacking Grain, and also for Stacking Straw and (Jha, the Whole being used in connection with a grainseparator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andv exactv description ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ot this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is aside elevation bf my in vcntion; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section of the saine, taken in the line rrm, Fig. 1; and Fig.

3, adetached section of the grain-receiver, taken in line y y, Fig.`1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

rlhis invention is designed, first, to save labor so far as regardsthe measuring and `sacking of grain, and, second, to render the .device more portable than those hitherto used,

the box which contains the -conveyerbeing capable of being folded when not innse.

The invention is used in connection With a grain-separater, and is so arranged that the `cleaned "grain is conveyed to a separate reunderstand and construct my invention, I will suspended within the box B by metal straps or springs I), and having a shaking motion conim'nnicated toit by any proper means. The back part of the box B has an inclined bottom a", and tothe outer end of box B a shallow box E is connected by hinges or joints I). The box E when not required for use may be folded down underneath the box B, and when in use it is raised -and secured in line with the box B, the bottom c of E being in line with the bottom d of box I3, as shown in Fig. 1. At the outer end of box E there is a roller d, and a similar roller e is placedat the lower end of box B. Around these rollers an endless eonveyer F is placed, said conveyer being formed of two endless straps r c, connected by traverse-barsf, of square form., This end# less conveyor yreceives the straw and chaff from the screen or screens of the shoe C, and when the machine is in operation conducts the straw and chaff up the inclined bottoms v ax c, and discharges them from the upper end of box E. The box E is secured in either of its two positions by hooks am.

At the lower end of the shoe C there is placed a box G, which receives the'grain from the shoe C. In this box G there is placed a horizontal screw II, which serves to convey the grain from box G to the lower end of an elevator-box I. The elevator .I in said box vI is formed of an endless strap g, having wooden Scrapers h attachedto it at suitable and equal distancesapart. The Scrapers h extend the whole width of the strap, and their face sides are at right angles with the strap, while their outer surfaces are beveled, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The Scrapers-#work in contact with the bottom' of the elevator-box I, and carry up the grain from the box G and deposit it in the top of a receiver K, which is provided with a horizontal slide L'.- The ele- .vator-box I is provided with a central Apartition t', which serves to support the strap g. The elevator` J and conveyer F are both driven by straps j] from a driving-shaft. M 'on the Vouter part of box B.

In the lower end of the receiver K there is v placed a valve M', which is formed of a semisphere at the lower end of a vertical rod N, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. nected at its upper end to a lever 0, which passes through the side of the receiver K, said lever having a pawl P attached, which pawl engages with a ratchet Q at the outer side of the receiver K. The ratchet Qhas itsv teeth numbered, as shown clearly in Fig. 1.` R is a holding-pawl,which engages with the ratchet. In the side ot' the receiver K there is placed a glass S.

To the lower end of .the receiver K thereA are attached at one side hooks k, and a spring Z is attached to the opposite side. By means of these hooks and spring a sack 'l is secured' to the lower end ot' the receiver, the spring Z keeping the sack distended, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. \Vhen the grain is discharged into the receiver K, the slide L is opened `or withdrawn, and when the grain The rod N is conu 2 canse reaches a lpoint above the slide L, which may be seen by look-ing through the glass S, the operator shoves-in .the slide L and then depresses the o uter end of lever O, therebyraising thevalve M and allowing the grain in K below the slide L to drop into the sack T. Each time the grain is discharged from the receiver Kthe pawlP of lever O moves the ratchet Q one tooth, and hence the ratchet serves as an indicator or register, denoting the number of discharges from K. It is dey signed to have the space in the grain-receiver below the slide 'L of sntlicient capacity to con- -tain one bushel, and hence the number of bushels of grain may be denoted. The screw H vmay be driven by gears b from the lower roller of the elevator J as'shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l 1. The combination of the elevator J, screw conveyer H, and grain-receiver K, the latter' being provided with the slide L and 'valve M', which valveis connected through the medium of a lever O and pawl P with a ratchet or register Q, all arranged for joint operation 'as and for the purpose set forth.

2. 'lhesupplemental box E, connected to the box B by joints or hinges b, and arranged,

as shown, to admit, when not required for use, of being folded down underneath the box 

